The Sun. — London, England, 1864-10-25 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The Money Market is still well supplied with capital, and the commercial public find little diffi culty in discounting their bills at rates fractionally below the official minimum. The inquiry for ac• commodation to-day has been moderate, and many are now indulging the hopeful feeling that lower quotations will soon prevail. The chargfis for the best paper having a week or so to run are St per cent., but the larger number of transactions are recorded at 9 per cent. There were no bullion operations of importance at the Bank yesterday. Mr. John Piddington, of Gracechurch-street, foreign patent agent, has failed with liabilities estimated at £30,000; and Messrs. Duckworth and Co,, wine merchants, with debts and liabilities to a considerable amount. Business in the Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets during the last few days has been rather dull. Sugar has maintained former prices, while tin has been at rather lower rates. In coffee an average business has been reported at steady quota ti)ns, while rice, fruit, and spices have remained inactive at about former rates. Tallow has been in better request at enhanced quotations for both pre sent and forward delivery. At a general meeting, held to-day, of the pro prietors of the Demerara Railway Company, Mr. John A. Tinne in the chair, the statement of accounts presented exhibited a balance on revenue acount of £4,684 14s. 5d., out of which the direc tors proposed a payment of £2,600 13.1., 6d., the preference dividend on capital applicable to the old line, and of £1,688 155., a dividend at the rate of 2* per cent. per annum on the original stock, amounting together to £4,289 Bs. 6d., leaving a balance of £395 Sc, 11d. to be carried forward to the current half-year. Two O'CLOCK. At the Paris Bourse this day, according to Reuters telegram, the 3 per Cent. Rentes were quoted 64f. 90c. to 64t. 92c. Firm. Business recently has been more active in the English Stock Market than for some time past. The public are more hopeful than they were, and are consequently investers where they were sellers of stock. Under such circumstances, the Funds continue to make daily pros gress, and Consols for money have now reached 8 91 Z, and for the account 89Z . The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 871 ; Exchequer Bille t March, 10s to 63 die. ; and India 5 per Cents., 1041 105 ; Bank Stock is marked 237 239 ; and India do., 213. In the Foreign Market there is not much activity, but prices are generally firmer. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are 70 ; do. Consolides, 492. ; Mexican, 264 1 ; do. New 251-- ; Greek, 228 ; Spanish Passive, 300 8 ; do. Certificates, 13a ', 1 ,; Russian, 872 a ; and the Confederate Loan, 65 66. In the Railway Share Market the operations have been on a limited scale ; prices, however, exhibit a firmer tone. North Western, Metros Politan, and South Eastern, have each improved Os. ; and Great Western, £1 ; while Caledonian and Great Eastern have declined ss. The Foreign and Colonial lines continue dull Without material change in values. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares remain in ?moderate request. Union of Amsterda m have de. clined £1 ; Alliance Bank, 10s.; Bank of Austra. lasia, £1; and London and County, £l. In the Miscellaneous Market Royal Mail Steam have declined to 93 94; General Credit have line Proved to 9: Q. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. 3 per Cent. Console Do Account, Nov. 12 B9s 8 per Cent. Reduced New 3 per Cent B7 New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894 Do 5 per Cent., Jan. 1873 Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 — Do for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1835 -- Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 --- Mt.roh. June. Zzehoquer Bills, £l,OOO, 4 & 31 per Cent. 6 10 Do £500 Do £lOO and £2OO sank England Stk, 6t per Ct. .Do Account.. INDILN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. India Stock, 101 per Cent., April 1874 213 Do Account Do 5 per Cent. July, 1870 Do 4 per Cent., Oct, 1888 Do Certificates .... Do Account Do 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) — Do 4 poi Cent. .. Do Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent . . FOREIGN FUNDS _ONE O'CLOCK.. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent............ Brazilian 5 per Cent . . ...... Do 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 Buenos Do ;1863 Ayres 6 per, Cent — Do Account... .. . .......... ~ ) Chilian 6 per Cent ....... — Do 4/ per Cent ...... olombian 6 per Cent ..... _, üba, 6 por Cent. -- Do 5 per Cent. 1864 Danish 3 per Cont., 1825 - , Do 5 per Cent, 1864 'Qquador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent l2 , Do, Provisonal Land `Warrant.. — 4 gYptian 7 por Cent Do, Second Issue Do £lOO Bonds - fitrook 5 per Cent. ) 1824-5, ex -Coupons -- Do Account ............ 22 Do Coupons ........................ Do Account ................ Guatemala 5 per Cent ................ --* Do 1839 and 1859 .................. -- Italian b per Cent.(Marommana Railway) --- Mexican 3 per Cent ............. Do Account Do 1864 Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French Ditto Scrip, £33 paid — die x d o French Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c.. — die x d Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent New Granada Do 2 per Cent. Do Deferred — Do Land Warrants (Hectares) — Do Debentures, 4 per Ct., April 1861 — Do do Aug., 1866 — Peruvian 41 per Cent Do 3 per Cent. (Uribarron)... ..... Do 41 por Cent., 1862 — Do Account Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Do Account — Do 3 por Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '60,.,62;3 — Do Account — Russian b per Cent., 1822, £ St — Do 41 per Cent,, 1850 • • Do 1860 Do 3 per Cent 1859 — Do 5 per Cent, 1862 B7i Do Anglo-Dutch Do Scrip, £55 paid Pm Sardinian 5 per Cent — Do Account — Spanish 3 per Cent Do Account Do New Deferred Do Account Do Passive — Do Account 3Ol 30 Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded Do Account .......... Swedish, 4 per Cent. na Do Scrip, £6O paid T irkish 6 per Cent. 1851 Do Account Do 6 per Cent. 1853 ............ ... _ Do Account Do £lOO Bonds ............ . Do 6 per Cont. 1862 70/ Do Account Do £lOO Bonds.. 7of Do 1863...........••• 1)o Guaranteed, 4 per Cent •— Do 1863 Scrip, £4O paid Vialezuela 3 por Ceut. Do Account 1)o 6 per Cent., 1862 Do Account - Do 6 per Cent., 1861 42 3 Dividends on the above payable in London Austrian, 5 per Cent., Ex. 10 Florins. Belgian 41 per Cent., Ex. 25f... — Dutch 2i per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil — Do 4 per Cent. Certificates French Rentes, 2 per Cent. ...-. Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs — Do account 6l} Peruvian Dollar Bonds, 4i per Ct. Ex. 4s. Piedmontese„ 5 por Cent., Ex. 25f — TWO 0 O'CLOCK. Consols, Money B9l f Do Account Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day, There is a good demand for cotton to-day, at an Improvement in prices. Sales, probably 8,000 or 10,000 bales, 12.14, et et et 50 20 SHARE MARKETB—Tbi.s day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOOLS. Share/ Hallways. p a id . / Closing Business Prioe. I done. Wol., and Str. Val. eilythe and Tyne. Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cork and Bandon Cornwall Do A - A crets no dig Do. B ti❑ep o.p an. has been paid to B. Dublin & Belfast June. Dun Pert h, &Ab. J Edinburgh & Glasgow. Cilasg. and S. Western. Great Eastern, Ord. ate. Ditto A stook Ditto Eaet Anglian s GreatNorthof Sootlanu Great Northern Do A stock Do B do Gt. S. amt WY. of Irel Great Western,Original Do Str Val trua. stock Do. South Wales .... Do. West MW. -Oxford Newport Do Hereford Lancashire at Yorkshire, London and Blaokwall Lon., Bright.,at S. Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Lon. & Nor/ - h Western, Lon. & Sw a th Western' Man., Slid., & Lincoln. 'Maryport and Carlisle. Do shares Metropolitan Midland I Do Binning. & Derby Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland Do. shares Mid Kent North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee INth. Eastern—Berwick Do, G.N.E. purohast Do Leeds Do York Do Do. Stook. & Darling. Do do 1855-58 Do do 1860.61 North London Do New Do New, 1864. North Staffordshire N. and S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot. N. E., Aber. stock Do Scot. Mid. stock Shrews. and Welohpool Shropshire Union South South Eastern Staines,Wok.,andWok Taff Vale Do C. Vale of Neath Waterford & Kilkenny' West Cornwall W. Hartlepool Har..kß BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Closing Shar. gailways Paid. Price. Business don, 100 ithuatio &St Lawreno all 54 56 Sk Bom.,Baroda4c.Cent In lob 100 /01 1001 Gu. 5 per cent— ..• • 20 Do. E. 10 1 dis pr 204 Buflalo and LareHurof all 41 5 10 Do. Preference all 7 8 too Buffalo,Brant,AGodricl ( 5 p. ot. bds. Aug. 1,187 100 Do. do. July 1, 187 100 100 Do. do. June 1, IS; 100 st 21cutta.&S.14:astn.(Lii: 100 95 100 at i7apeTown & Dock Scri 100 92 94 99 100 Demerara 7 p.o. per. pf all stook rlastn. Bengal gu. sp. lue 1001 1014 1002 Stook East Indian. en. sp. c 100 ICO 101 1004 I 20 Do. do. J Ext 5 stock Grand Trunk of Canad Nu 19 20 1 0 Do. Equip. Mort. Bonds 1 charge 6 per cent all 83 92 90 100 Do. Ist Pref. Bonds ail 67 70 100 Do. do. deferred all 59 dl 100 Do. 2d Pref. Bonds all 63 65 100 Do. do. deferred all 55 57 100 Do. 3d Pref. stock all 51 53 100 Do. do. deferred all 46 50 100 Do. 4th Pref. stoc all 28 30 100 Do. do. deferred all 20 23 stook Gt.lndial'entn.gua.sp.e 100 1001 1.0+4 111 20 Do. Gus. 5 per cell 12 id pi' 11 4 20 Do. New gua. sp. a.. 2 id 1 r stook it. Sout.h.of India (Litn guaranteed 5 per cent 100 99 100 stock Do. 4f per cent 100 stock D 0... 2 sus it. W. ofCanadr. Shares all 994 91 204 Do. New . . . 18 111 11: 100 .)o. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt all 90 92 100 90. 54 p. c. do. '77-8.. all 77 81 10 Indian Branch Limited 2 1 d stook Iladras. guar., sp. o. lOO 100 101 100 stook Do. 41 p. o. Extension, 100 93 05 stook Do. 41 do 100 88 90 20 Do. Fifth Extension 2 stook Ifelb.Corp. 6p. o. Bnds 100 50 Nielb. & Ilobson's Bay. all 18 CO 20 lewßrunswiok & Cand. Class Aand B. po lst pi ndc 100 80 83 stool Soinde (100 99 KO stock Do. Delhi lOO 981 091 20 Do. < 2 4d par at. Do. Punjaub p e Ico 984 991 Stock lio.lndus.St.Floq) t" . 1,100 95 97 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. British Columbia. 6 per cent., Dec. 31, 1872 100 Do. do. 1883 100 .7an.tior.sp.c.Ja SzJ ui; 1877-84 ---, . 100 93 96 96 Do. 6 p.c. Feb. lz A. 14., 100 91 94 D 0.6 p. c. Mar. & Sept 100 91 94 Do. 6p. a. Jan.&July. 10i 80 85 1121 Do. 5 Inscribed stock 100 78 83 .ape G.Hope, 6p c,187'.. 100 104 106 Do.Ap ik Oct. 188( 100 104 106 Do. 1891 100 115 107 .)o. Jan. & July. 1891. 100 107 10i :;eylon, N0v.1864, 6 p 100 102 105 Do. 1878, do. 100 1( 9 112 11auritius 6 p.cent.lB73 00 02 105 Do. 1878 100 104 107 Do. 1882 100 106 108 Fatal Gov. 6 per cent_ 100 02 104 1031 NI.B.Gov. 6 p.c.J a.3zJul) 100 93 96 93 —4, S.W. G ov. 5 p 2.,180 100 97 99 Do. p. e.,lB'il to V,7t 100 95 47 Do. d0.,1888 &upwdt 100 94 06 93 'ew Zealand 6 p cent 100 100 103 iova Scotia Gov. 6 p. c. sterling, 1876. lOO 96 93 Queensland Gcv. 6p. c. 100 103 102 101 3. Aus Gov. 6 p.c.1868- 100 - Do. 176 &el . ward 100 106 107 Vlo.Gov. 6 p.o. Ja.AtJul.) 100 - Do. lo 6 p.o. An.&001.. 100 1011 1054 105 BRITISH MINES. 2 ' ambrien Consol. Gold 1 4 I Chiverton 3 54 61 A intlgr.mated 9 3i )cvcn Cone. (Tavist 1 580 600 590 Drakewal:s.. ri:ast Bassett(lllo,gan) .50 55 60 s3ast Caradon ..... 2.14. c 23 24 Carn Brea... 3.4.0 61 71 East Grenville ..... • Nast Lovell .. .. 2.13.6. 114 124 o. AT'lltussel (Tavistk 8.13. 41 5 Sam &St.Aubyn(Gwen 60 , 6 8 4 G [eat Laxey, all 15 16 3retie South fors.— 1714 14 2 3. It ocal Yor( elston 40 30 32 321 --enville.. ... 78 r. 5/ 61 ,Icrod's-lcot 6.13 So 40 fingston Downs 4.18.+ 444 dargaret (Uny Lelant 11 7 9 darke Valley.. 4 , d) - ndv Iron Oro (Lim. 24 11 1 C Yangiles Vow &tun 214 CO ?0 , torth Downs 3 11 North Roskear.. . .... NV n'i Basset (11logsa 3. 1 ,..6 11 2 :•orth Wheal Crotty . 2.8 0 21 Prosper United...a , 34 31 • r ovidence(Uny Lelnt. 10 6 . 7 38 3i iouthCaraden(Bt.Cleer 14 120 540 Fran. (Mogan 8.18.1 33 36 3tray Park Pin Cron 9 35 16 Nest Basset (Illogan) l4 8 9 VC , radon (Liskeard 0 5 6 West Chiverton W est Soton ........... 174 00 210 Wheel Basset (Illogan, 54 92 95 Wheal Buller(ltedruth, 10 12 14 ArlicalLudeott Wheal IllaryAnn (Lien. 8 15 17 Wlic4l :3eton 584 200 205 Trelawney (Lis. 7 18 20 Wheal Union 4 PREFERENCE SHARES. . Northern, 5 per cent., red. at 10 per cent. pm.,` 1086 itto, 5 per cent., redeemable at 5 per cent., 103 ashire and Yorkshire, 6 per cent, stock, Ditto, 4i per cent., Blackburn pur., 99 81 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Great Northern, 5 per cent., irred., 108 Great Lan FOREJGN RAILWAYS. Antwerp and Rotterdam, Ok Great Luxembourg, 9E310 San Pau o ( lo all) (tiro.) 1 , gua. 7 per cent., Ditt, 8 South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, c 01 FOREIGN MINER. Tudanamutana of S. Australia, lira., 1i 2 BANKS. Alliance (Urn.), 341 3_4 Ditto, new, 33/1 Anglo-Italian, Dm., 31 Australasia, CO Bank of British Columbia, 151 Bank of Egypt, 261 Bank of New Zealand, 151 Brazilian and Portuguese, lim., 101 Chartered Bank of India. Australia. and China, 34 Commercial Bank of India and the East, Ditto, issued at 10:pm., of which 10 is pd., 271 Consolidated Bank, lim., gi European Bank, lim., 91 Hindustan, China, and Japan (11m.), 25 Imperial Ottoman, 151 1 Land Mortgage Bank of India, lim., 41 London Bank of Mexioo and S. America, lim., 44 London and County, 894 London Joint Stock, 44 31 London and Westminster, 94 31 _,;;Qi Merchant Bank, lim., 2 ) Oriental Bank Corporation, 63 Provincial of Ireland. 891 Scinde, Punjaub, and Delhi, Um., 1( Union of Australia, 51 Union of London, 51 504 DOCKS. London and St. Katharine, 684 MISCELLANEOUS. Commercial Union, Insurance, 87 i Credit Fonder and Dlobilicr of England, Ditto (£2), 4 Discount Corporation, 12,E Electric Telegraph, 115 Fore-street Warehouse, lim., 81 Gen. Credit and Finance of London, Urn., 611 International Financial society, lint., 64 International Land Credit. lint., 44 Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavour, Ditto, oi per cent. Bonds, redem. 1870, issued 90, 84 5 Joint Stock Discount, lint., 4 22 London Financial Association, lint., 214 a Ditto, new, 0 London General Omnibus CompanY, Natal Land and Consolidation Company, lint., 41 National Discount Company, lint., 14 .1t Peninsula and Oriental Steam, Royal Mail Steam, b 3 4, • - 92 €4 123 121 51 6i 31 33 16 17 83 S 5 105 107 13i 44i 1231 1131 661 111 1 1306 I 1001 2 431 14 1411 31 21 niiiii 1131 1 1 951 d 6 8 1/9 130 1404 1411 129 131 8/ 91 74 74 53 54 39 42 93 101 [l2/ 1131 66 67 103 W 5 33 4C 112, 113} 4 , 4 96 64 65 1 04 lin' 1291 1:10i 100 102 62 63 21 i 5 1066 1076 65i Chi 95 56 125 130 851 3& o 74 84 118 123 1 14 1) 76 77 10/ 111 13} 138 65 67 25 17 821 831 8 9 155 160 31 41 p 98 100 32 34 OLD COURT. (Before the Recorder.) ROBBERY. PAWNBROKERS. MULLER'S CASE. lon 951 il 63 i CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT—This Day. Edward Carlton, alias Peter Watkins, 32, described as a carpenter, was indicted for stealing 40 yards of linsey cloth, value £3 10s, the property of Richard Laxton, a warehouse man in the City. The prisoner cross-examined the persons who captured him with great adroitness, to show that there were jobbing porters in the City, who carried about goods for warehouse men, and that he willingly went back to Mr Laxton's as soon as ho was accused of the robbery. A clerk in the employment of the owner of the property said the prisoner had no authority to' remove the goods; and that the firm never sent goods by such persons. He knew nothing of the prisoner. The prisoner, having no counsel, addressed the jury in his own defence, urging that his conduct did not imply guilt. Lhe jury however took an entirely different view of the case, and without a moment's hesitation found him guilty. A police officer proved a previous conviction, and as he had nct reported himself under the new regulations on Leaving his penal servitude before the expiration of his time ho was on the look out for him. Tho Recorder sentenced him to so en years penal.:servi ,ade Several pawnbrokers who had taken in things of value from a young man who was indicted for stealing them, wore called, and their expenses were disallowed by the Recorder. This afternoon, shortly after 12 o'clock, the witnesses who haveboen summoned in the case of Franz Muller, who is charged with the murder of Mr Thomas Briggs, on the North London Railway, attended before the Grand Jury, Mr Edward Mappin being the foreman. Tho avenues of the court were crowded with people who were content to catch even a hasty glance of the persons who are to play a promi nent part in the trial. Fifty-one witnesses have been sub ['coned on the part of the prosecution, but the evidence cf a vast number of them is of little moro than a formal cha racter, and will occupy the Court but a short time. It is thought the witnesses, who will be subjected to a rigorous cross-examination, will not be more than eight. The in vestigation by the Grand Jury was, of course, conducted with closed doors, but it is understand that Mr T. Briggs, a son of the deceased, Mr Death the jeweller, Mathews the cabman, and others, bore testimony to the facts in reference to which they spoke when they were before the police ma gistrate and the coroner. The Grand Jury found a true bill against Muller. rHE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 25, 1864. SHIPPING-THIS DAY, LONDON, Oot. 25.—Wind this day at noon—North- Westerly; moderate breeze and fine weather, but rather cloudy. PorriamouTH, Oct. 24.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Sala manca, from London for Madras, with damage to bul warks, &c. CARNARTON, Oct. 23.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Volante; from Quebec. PLYMOUTH, Oct. 25.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Hornet, from London for Sydney—London, from London for Mel bourne. BRISTOL, Oat. 24..—Wind N N.W.—Arrived—Dore, from New York. DARTMOUTH, Oct. 24.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Rosa Bonheur, from Cephalonia, (ET MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH,) GRATESEND, Tuesday Morning. Arrived, Oct. 24—Emulous and Tartary from Patras— Ring of Tyre, from Faroe. Arrived, Oct. 25—Guatemala, from Boston—Chatsworth, from Calcutta—Wanteata, from Bombay—Alexandria, from Algoa Bay—Forth, from Hamburg. DEAL, Tuesday Morning. Passed—Zenith, from London for the west—Fling, from London, for Corfu—Free Lad, from Quebec, for London— Chevy Chase, bark, from the west, for London, The Tribunal of Correctional Police on Saturday tried a man named Chavoutier, a check-taker at the Theatre du Chatelet, and a woman named Roblin, a box-opener at the same theatre, fJr embezzling a number of checks or counter-marks belonging to the director of the said theatre ; four men, named Winkler, Gambelon, Jonan, and Guille main, were also charged with selling the same and dividing the proceeds with the two first-named prisoners. The evi dence against all the prisoners being conclusive, Chavoutier was condemned to six months' imprisonment, Winkler and Gambelon each to four months, and Jouan and Guillemain each to two months of the same punishment; and all of them severally to 251 r, fine. The woman Roblin was sen tenced to a fortnight's imprisonment. TILE IN GEN DIARY FIRES IN YORKSHIRE AND LIN COLN SIIIRE.—The prevalence of fires in stack yards is causing inquiry to be made by somo of the insur ance offices into the bearing of a report which has gained currency, that these destructive fires are likely to occur only in the stackyards of those farmers who have used reaping machines. It is said that threatening notices to that effect have been found in some places, but there is no tangible shape for tho rumour. It has, however, had the effect of alarming some of the insurance offices. No alteration of rates has yet been made, but in certain cases the insurance agents have been instructed to inquire of their customers as to their use or otherwise of reapers, which tend to lessen the demand for labour. EITRAORDINARY ROBBERY AND DISCO - VERY OF £loo.—On Friday, at the Preston sessions, a man named Joshua Bond, who for years has occupied a respectable po sition at Fleetwood, was charged with stealing two £5O Bank of England notes belonging to the New Fylde Timber Company. The circumstances of the caso were of a very singular character. It appeared from the evidence that on the 6th of October, 1860, a man named John Walkden, re siding at a place called Church, in East Lancashire, paid two £5O Bank of England notes to a young man named Richard Mayor, in the employ of the New Fylde Timber Company at Fleetwood. Mayor received the money in the presence of the prisoner Bond, who advised him to put it in his pocket book. In the evening Mayor, whilst making up his accounts, for the purpose of handing over his cash to the company, missed the two £5O notes, and as he could give no account of them, suspicion naturally fell upon his honesty. He was apprehended, placed in the lock-up at Kirkham, and afterwards brought before the magistrates at Blackpool. Bond was one of the witnesses who gave evidence egainst him —but nothing very positive could be elicited, and eventually Mayor was discharged. But he took the matter deeply to heart. The public seemed to point to him as being the guilty party; but he was conscious of his innocence, and the fact that others could not feel the same so preyed upon his mind that his health gradually gave way, and from a strong, stalwart young man he became a paralysed, bed-ridden in valid. About two months ago a new phase in the case tran spired. A little boy, whilst playing in a yard connected with the premises of the New Flyde Timber Company at Fleetwood, found a pocketbook. On examining it he shouted (int " Notes 1" Another boy then came up, and afterwards an official of the company, who was passing, took charge of the book, opened it, and at once saw that its contents were two £5O Bank of England notes, and several settled bills, ke., which had been made out to Bond who at that time was Gfficiating as the company's salesman. Suspicion then fell upon Bond, and he was apprehended. On being charged with stealing the notes, ho made a statement to the effect that he lost his pocketbook a few months be fore; that the book which had been found was his; but that when he lost it there were no notes in it, and that some one must have put those found in it. Evidence was given showing that the notes found in the pocket-book were the same as those paid over to Mayer by Walkden ; that after they were paid Mayor placed them in a bag, that he was then requested by Bond to take some consignment notes to an office in Fleetwood ; that both he and Bond went out of the company's office at the same time; that Mayor was absent about five minutes and missed the notes, as previously named ; that Bond as well as Mayor had a key which would open the office door and give access to the apartment where the cash bag containing the notes were placed. For the defence, it was contended by the prisoner's counsel that there was no evidence to show that the robbery had been committed by Bond ; that he was not seen to take the money and bad never been suspected of doing so, and that he had always borne a good character. The prisoner was acquitted. Mr Kaye appeared for the prosecution, and Mr Pope for the prisoner, The trial occupied between eight and nine hours in hearing, and was not finished until about 6 o'clock. FATAL ACCIDENT ON LUDGATE-HILL.—An in• quest took place yesterday before the City coroner, at St Bartholomew's Hospital, concerning the death of a man named Garrett Punch, a labourer, aged 53, under the following circumstances :—The deceased was employed on the works of the new bridge for the railway which crosses Ludgate-hill, and was at work on a scaffolding 16 feet from the ground. One of his companions dropped a coat to the ground, and the deceased removed ono of the planks on the scaffolding, leaving a gap through which he drew up the coat, He replaced the plank, but, as it proved, did not do so properly, for stepping on it afterwards it gave way, and he fell through the aperture. Ho was painfully injured, and, having been removed to the hos pital, died on Saturday. His back was broken by the fall, and he suffered dreadfully from the injuries. The jury found a verdict of" Accidental death." ROMAN CATHOLICS IN AUSTRALIA.--A Melbourne paper says—" By a private letter recently received we learn that the Rev. Mr Scully, who some time since visited this colony, is now in Rome busily employed in inducing the Papal Court to send out to Australia ten Roman Catholic bishops and a hundred priests. At the present time there are three Catholic sees vacant in the colonies, those of Armidale and Goulbourn, in New South Wales, and Ade laide, South Australia." THUNDER-STORMS IN YORKSHIRE.—During Fri day, and especially on Friday night, thunder-storms, with hail and heavy rains, passed over Yorkshire, the storm on Friday night being especially severe in the valley of the Derwent, During the whole of Saturday continuous rains fell throughout North and East Yorkshire, the farmers regarding them as a perfect godsend, which would moisten the hard laud and allow wheat sowing to be got on with, POLICE INTELLIGENCE,—This day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. THE FOREIGN PROSTITUTE NUISANCE IN REGENT STREET,—Marie Debacker, Emma Dialler, and Louisa Ackling, prostitutes, the first two foreigners, were charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with behaving in a disorderly manner in Regent-street, and Dialler was further charged with assaulting police-constable Goddard, 302 A, and Aokling with assaulting police-constable Bucking ham, 328 A. _ _ Goddard said that at a quarter past 12 last night ho saw Mailer and Debacker in company with four other foreign prostitutes in front of tho County Fire office in Regent street. He told them to separate, as there were so many of them there, and some of them were about to do so, when Mailer refused to go, and used a low expression in English, and then placed herself against the wall, saying "I'll not go for yon—you are one —." On taking hold of her arm to remove her she began smack ing his face, and Dobacker and the others then laid hold of Mailer and tried to pull her away. At this time there were about a dozen prostitutes—mostly foreign ones— several of their men, and about 100 other persons col lected. Another constable came to his assistance; and they then took Mailer and Debacker into custody, when Mailer became very violent—kicking and scratching. Buckingham, 323 A, said he heard screaming under the County Fire-office, and on going to the place found Mailer and Goddard struggling together. There were several women and three men trying to get Mailer away, Debacker also taking part. While going to the station with Mailer and Debacker, Ackling came up and knocked off his hat. Mailer denied striking the constable, and said the reason he interfered with her was because she refused to give him money. _ Mr Tyrwhitt said he had not the slightest doubt the psisoners had been guilty of disorderly conduct. The con stables were perfectly light in dispersing them ; and if they did not carry on their wretched trade quietly, and were brought before him again, he would send them to prison for a month. The charge Mailer had made against the police evidently was made from petty malice. lie should flue Mailer 20s, Debacker 6e , and Ackling 10s. Mr Albert, who had interpreted, repeated the magis trate's caution to them. AN IMPOSTOlt.—JohnTooke, a boy living in Great Wyld street, brury-lane, was charged before Mr Tyrwhitt with begging in Regent-street. The prisoner was seen by Turner, one of the Mendicity officers, in Regent-street yesterday afternoon, with a board round his neck, on which were the words " Totally blind and fatherless," a dog with a tin cup fastened round its neck being by his side. In consequence of complaints made to the Society, Turner watched the prisoner for some time, and saw him joined by three girls, when they all com menced playing at "pitch and toss," and on one of the girls throwing up four half-ponce and saying they were ail women, the prisoner, although supposed to be totally blind, cried oat " It's a - lie, they are all heads." which Turner, on stepping up found to be the case. The prisoner then walked away to the chapel in Regent-street, when Turner, in the presence of a lady and gentleman, asked the .prisoner whether he was totally blind, and he said he was and had been for five years. Turner then toak the prisoner into custody, but not till several persons had given him money. On the way to the station the prisoner admitted that he was not blind, but said that he had something the matter with his eyes, and that he went out begging to keep his mother and the rest of them, Mr Tyrwhitt said as the prisoner had never been brought to the Court before he would discharge him, but if he were brought before him again he would commit him for a month. WESTMINSTER. DISGRACEFUL OUTRAGE,—Peter Manning, a very stout, powerful man, was brought before the magistrate, charged with the following disgraceful conduct at the houseof Mr Southewaite, the General Havelock, Ranelagh grove, Pimlico. Mr Southewaite said he was sitting in his parlour with some friends at half-past seven o'clock, when his wife in • formed him that there was a man at the bar making a great disturbance and insulting the customers. Com plainant went to the bar where he found the defendant making a great uproar, and quietly went up to remonstrate with him, and had just commenced with " Now, my good man," when defendant struck him a violent blo x in the eye, which cut the lid open. Defendant then flew at him and scratched his face in a frightful way. He then closed onfcomplainant and hurt him very much. Ho seized him by the hair of the head, and held him so tightly that he could neither get away nor move. After that ho struck him about the body and kicked him violently ,on the legs, and it required five men to relieve from his violence. Mr Arnold—Have you had any difference or quarrel with the defendant at any time ? Complainant—No, sir, I have not. I have given him no provocation at all, and ace very much hurt by his violence. Defendant said he want into the house and had a differ ence with one of the customers when he was struck by somebody, and then the landlord of the house came up and ill used him. _ _ • A witness was called for complainant who completely contradicted this statement, and said that defendant's con duct was altogether most disgraceful. He threw the cus tomers' beer about, "hugged the landlord like a bear and scratched him like a cat." He then struck another man who would not permit it. The police proved that the landlord was bleeding from the eyes, and was much ill used. The defendant was also bleeding, and a man present said he had done it. Mr Arnold (to defendant)--Your conduct has been very bad. You are fined tho full penalty of £5 or two months, and to enter into your own recognisances to keep the peace for six months. THAMES. DRUNKEN AND DISORDERLY GERMANS.-Albert Linger, Otho Theodore Alexander Linger, his son, Frederic Wilhelm Pabst, and Andrew Klantz, Germans, for whom M. Wintzen, an interpreter, was provided, were brought be fore Mr. Partridge, charged with being disorderly and committing other offences in violation of police law morality and good order. John Chester, a police constable, No. 23 H, stated that at two o'clock this morning he was on duty in the White chapel-road, and saw the two Lingers, father and son, and two other Germans on the pavement. They were shout ing and singing loudly. He requested them to desist, and not to make so much noise. They walked about twenty yards and did stop. They recommenced their singing and shouting and he again interfered. The Ger mans again desisted, and in loss than a minute afterwards began to shout and sing aga in. He reminded them that people were in their be 's and wanted rest. The four Germans then committed a nuisance on the pavement, and he asked them to turn round and be decent. Another German came up and said, " Take no notice, we have been out at a party." Directly afterwards Albert Linger struck him on the hat with a stick and knocked the hat off. The hat was broken. The same prisoner then struck him three times on the bare head with the stick. Ho drew his truncheon and struck the prisoner across the arm. Another police-constable named William Crofts, No. 129 H, then came up, and Otto Linger said, " You shall not take my father," and hit him twico on the ribs. lle took the stick from Albert Linger, and 129 11 captured Otto Linger. On the way to the station he was in advance with Albert Linger, and Otto kicked him behind. The other two prisoners he had not seen before came up and made an attempt to rescue the Lingers. A some of great disorder and violence ensued, and in the mad other constables arrived, and all the prisoners were secured. Croft, 129 H, and Perks, 184 K, gave confirmatory ovi d on ee, and said all the prisoners we r e cx cebdino3' violent and noisy. The prisoners generally denied all that was alleged against him, and complained th y had been unjustly in terfered with. They called a witness, a German, who said Albert Linger was badly used by the Constable Ches ter, and that Otto only interposed to protect his father. The other prisoners went after the Lingers to the dation-house, and were called in. To their surprise they were detained as prisoners. The witness admitted that he was neither drunk or sober, and that the prisoners were not quite sober. A German, named Hildebrandt, and his wife, an Eng lishwoman, gave similar evidence, and said Albert Linger was badly used, thrown down, and knelt upon by Chester. After an investigation, which lasted an hour and a half, Mr Partridge said the witnesses for the defence did not come up till the assaults on the police were committed. He sentenced Albert Linger to one month's imprisonment ; Otto, his son, to nineteen days imprisonment ; Pupot to pay a fine of 20s; and Klantz to pay 103. MARKET S— T his Day. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD._ le and adow straw hay, £3 15 s t o £5 10e ; clover, £5 Os to £6 15s Od ; £1 7s to £1 10s par load. 153 to £5 10s ; clover, ~ £3 L S u sc p o p us l m y t Ro m EL o ß6 t i r 5N a : D o 0. ;_ d_ t ; ;l a t e l na e aci fi osw r t m r ah . w , ay. £ 1 7s to £1 103 per load, Trade steady. WlLlTEcnArEL.—ldea dc ' w hay, £3 158 to £5 108 ; clover, £5 Os to £6 15s Od ; and straw, £1 7s to SI 10s per load. Trade firm. COLONIAL. TEAL —Only a moderate amount of business has beon done, and prices in some instances are a shade flatter. SUGAR.—Business has continued quiet, and prices have not varied to any important extent. In the refined market quotations are in most isstances fully maintained. COFFEE.—There has been a fair demand for fine quali ties of colonial, which have realised former rates. Ricn.—A fair demand lit e existed for East India, which have sold at heavy rates. TALLOW.—The ;market has experienced a reaction after the late severe depression, and prices for bath present and forward delivery have improved. P,Y.C. on the spot quoted 40s, December 41s, and January to March 42s 3d per cwt. MR GREENOUGII, the well-known American sculptor, has just font from his atelier to London a bust of the distinguished actress Miss Helen Faucit, which, as a work of art, has received the highest commendation from the amateurs of Faris. AMERICA. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) NEW YORK, Oct. 8, 1864. The exposures that from time to time ooze out with reference to the acts and doings of the recruiting organisations of New York, Boston, &c., with their affilieed branches in Europe, probably have by slow degrees opened the eyes of the British public to the feet that virtual, if not illegal wrongs, have been committed by the United States on British subjects as well as other foreigners. When statements were made long since by cor respondents cf London journals and others con cerning the frauds to which emigrants had baen subjected in this country by agents of the Wash ington Government connected with the recruiting department, certain newspapers published in Lan don—that, whether right or wrong, are commonly considered here as "retained" by the Northern ad ministration—denounced these statements as mere prejudicial representations. Other persons, who are generally described as friendly to the North, took the same course. For instance, the Duke of Argyll pompously in the House of Lords, and Mr Goldwin Smith snappishly, in his pamphlets sent out for circulation over here, said to the effect that no blame whatever was to be attached to anyone whatever in relation to the re. cruiting for the Northern armies: Some of the friends of the North went further, and did what the late Mr O'Connell said was one of the most foolish things a witness can do—viz., they tried to prove too much. They stated that after all there were not many Irish in the Northern armies, and sought to back up their assertions upon a matter of which they knew nothing by citing the offhand opinion of Mr Seward, who knows a good deal about the affair in question, but who, whether in his prophetic capacity as to the' war ending in ninety days," or assertions contained in voluminous despatches, has shown that more than occasionally he makes mistakes. Mr Seward was represented to have announced that by far the largest proportion of the Northern armies was composed of American citizens. This, however, did not throw much light upon the matter with reference to where those " citizens" came from, or, in other words, to what " nationality" they be longed when they enlisted. Mr Seward might juEt as well have said—but that would not have an swered the purpose he and the apologists of the North had in view—that the entire of the army was made up of American citizens. In fact, the moment a man has enlisted therein, he is de facto and de jure a "citizen of the United States." I have merely referred to this to show how ridiculous it is to found any correct idea as to the proportion of Irieh or Germans, &c., there may be in the Northern army from Mr Seward's smart dictum. It is not either for the purpose of complaint that I refer to these recruitments. The law officers of the Crown appear to consider that the Foreign En. listment Act, and such like laws, are nearly inopera tive—that, like other things mentioned in the old adage, they are " made to be broken." It is true, that in the cases of allFged attempts at evasion of those laws by stated agents of the Confederate authorities, either those agents were not so smart as the Northern ones or our officials saw their way , more clearly in, what is conventionally called, vin dicating " the majesty of the law ;" but let that pass. Whether the neutrality that has been pro. claimed on the part of England has been impartially carried out by her executive, is a question I am not presumptuous enough to enter into in a casual way or in any way at present, However, as it has pleased some persons to try and raise doubts that the large emigration to this country has been turned to account for the purpose of filling up the armies of the Northern States, after • the real "citizens" thereof were unwilling or unable to come forward themselves, I subjoin extracts from an official document that will probably " settle the point," once and for all, in the minds of any ratione.l people. The following is from the report of Provost- Marshal General Fry to Secretary Staunton,ielative to Governor Seymour's complaint of an excessive enrolment in the State of New York : " It is true that the enrolment (and consequently the quota) is larger in these than in many other districts, but the population of these districts is more dense, and there are actually more men liable to enrolment in them than in others. . . . . But even if the enrolment and quotas in New York and Brooklyn aro unduly large, the claim that' the in habitants' of these cities are subject to oppressive and injurious' burdens, and their families broken up and ruined,' is not a good one, for it is a fact that the bulk of foreign emigrants to the United States arrive in New York, and they are actually used by New York and Brooklyn to fill a large pro portion of the quotas assigned to these cities. _ “ The State of New York forbids all other States from having access to these recruits. No other state has this source of supply to such an extent, and many are entirely without it." Surely this irrefragable testimony of " the foreign emigrants being used," as described, bears out clearly, though of coarse very unintentionally, the substance of the statements made by the Mayor of New York City and others, on the wholesale abuses of the recruiting organisations. Although not directly connected with the emi gration questio-1, it is well to see the realities as to tmployment in cities in the United States, not taken from British authorities, but in this instance from a weekly New York newspaper, one of the oldest established and respectably conducted papers in America, and of bitter "anti-British procli vities" : "A TOUCHING CASE.—The working women in the city have petitioned the Secretary of War to do something that will enable them to got from the contractors more than six cents a piece for making army shirts. In the name of .humanity, say nothing of those finer impulses which should govern every man in his dealings with the gentler sex, we protest against such a shamefully inadequate sum 99 the wages of labour. Six cents for making a shirt ! and broad ten cents a small loaf, meat twenty cants a pound, butter beyond all mention in con. nection with poor people. But what can the Secret. tary do in such a matter ? Very little. The cone tractors get the highest price they can for their work, bat they wiil not pay one woman a penny more than another woman will do it for, and dire necesaity teaches thousands that even six cents for food is better than no food at all." The same newspaper gives expression to senti ments which ought to make German and other foreign buyers of "U.S. Securities" ponder as to whether there may not be safer countries to invest money io, whatever place it may be to emigrate to for those who have none. The suit brought against Surgeon General Ham' mond for availing himself of his official position to defraud, in blanket and ether contracts, the national treasury, is for the sum of 150,000 doll. If every army official could be compelled to disgorge the money he has corruptly appropriated since the war commenced, the country would be, at least, five hundred millions less in debt, and we should have thirty millions less per annum to pay in taxation, It is not the honest war debt that the people of the United States may possibly dream, in some future petulant moment, of repudiating, but the downright stealings of men in office—stealings which threaten to swell that debt to an extent beyond all national conception, and taint its integrity beyond all national endurance. Wo hope never to see our country's good name debased by " repudiation but the re• publican Legislature of New York did " repudiate" at its late session, and Congress is composed of no better human materials. We hope never to witness such a thing, we repeat, but if ever we do, it will surely b 3 because our war debt embraces so much that has gone to enrich private venality instead of promoting the public welfare. THE BURGLARY AND ATTEMPTED MURDER AT Wooproup —Yesterday morning, when the magistrate took his seat en the bench at the Stratford Police-court, he inquired of Inspector Standage if the burglars in the above case had been discovered. The inspector answered in the negative, and added that the police-constable who had been so brutally attacked was in a sinking condition. Informa tion had been received from Scotland-yard, Whitehall, that Government would grant a reward for the apprehension of the burglars, An Adventure in a Railway Carriage. A reverend gentleman, living at Gloucester, has commu nicated the following extraordinary narrative to our corre spondent in that city :—Travelling from London to Glou cester on Thursday by the express train which left Padding. ton at 11'45, a scene took place which shows (if additional proof were required) the importance of establishing some means of communication between the passengers and the guard. I had a second class ticket, and anxious to avoid the inconvenience of changing at Swindon, I took a seat in the through carriage to Gloucester. My fellow travellers were two ladies, who were going, I think, into South Wales, and I had just settled snugly in a corner, end prepared for a few hours' quiet reading, when my attention was attracted by the entrance of a man in a sailor's dress, whose bloodshot eyes and savage mien, told of d; unkenness. I was on the point of seeking the guard, when the fellow suddenly left the carriage, and, the guard coming up at the moment, I requested that he would not allow him to return. But to my surprise, almost at the instant of starting, the fellow burst into the carriage, fol lowed by the guard, who waened him that if he did not be have properly ho would be left on the road. Now, this was not a pleasant prospect. We were to run to Swindon with out stopping, and wore to be all this time caged with a drunken ruffian. But there was no help for it. In the course of some ten or twelve minutes the fellow vehemently proclaimed himself "a Southern privateer and an enemy to the English." Rising from his seat he staggered over the feet of the ladies, and, confronting me, demanded what I had to say, threatening to " smash my eky lights" if I did not tell him my opinion, and mrishing his huge fist in my face by way of warning. I quieted him for a few minutes by getting him to tell us something of his early life. He said he was an English man, had run away from home when a boy, had gone to South America, and that when the war broke out he had taken service in a Southern privateer. His tale was mixed up with such oaths and blasphemies that I was glad to withdraw my attention, whereupon to my dismay he pro duced a bottle of strong drink of some kind, and swore he would " treat the company." He put it to his mouth by way of showing us how to do it, and took a pull so hearty and, so long that he swallowed one-half the contents. Declaring in words not to be repeated that the man or woman who did not drink should "catch it," he pre sented the bottle to each of the ladies. Having spent about ten minutes coaxing and threatening them, he turned to me. I expected I was "in for it," but upon my refusal he only expressed contempt for " old Jinnies," and took the remainder himself at one gulp. This over, he prepared for smoking, and seeing it alarm us, ho amused himself for some time in throwing about half-burnt matches. He had learnt the free and easy habits of American society, and spat with an accuracy of aim that was undeniable, for he made my face the target on two or three occasions. When he had satisfied himself upon this head he grew }Navy, and, stretching out his legs so as to take up one side of the carriage, he fell, as we delightedly supposed, into a sleep I settled down to read, and had been perhaps 10 minutes or so employed, when I was startled by a shriek and a spring from one of the ladies, and on looking up 1 saw, to my terror, that the fellow had suddenly opened the window, and had so far succeeded in getting out that but for the pre sence of mind and courage of the lady, who had seized him by the hair, he would have been under the wheels in another moment. By uniting our efforts we were able to drag him in, but for full a quarter of an hour he fought and tore like a savage, leaping at the window, and we restrained him, till at last he was compelled to desist through sheer exhaustion. What a situation to be fial H 3 then adopted a line of retaliation which was so grossly indecent and outragious that I dare not describe it. The poor ladies (whose conduct exceeded all praise) huddled together into a corner, while I stood in front guarding them with a stout umbrella. I con fess if at this moment the scoundrel had attempted to get out of the window again I think I should have allowed him his own way. Providentially the engine-driver found it necessary to stop at Wantage-road, and I succeeded in obtaining aid, and had him removed. If we had been com pelled to run all the way to Swindon, Heaven, who pre served us, only knows what might have happened. The writer adds :—" Now, I think you will agree with me when I say that it was a shameful outrage to put such a ruffian into our carriage, or into any carriage, with civilised people. True it is we were only second-class passengers, but that is not sufficient reason—at least to us—why we should have been terrified almost cut of our lives, and disgusted to loathing by the conduct of this drunken scoundrel. Never did I feel so utterly helpless. It put my head out of the window, and I called till I became hoarse, and although the guard was within a few yards we might have been mur dered for any help he could have rendered ; and all this in open day, and on the Great Western Railway I Perhaps if some of the wives and daughters of some of the directors had been in the carriage something might come of it, but of course as they travel in the first class such a thing is not likely to happen to them ; and yet poor Briggs's case shows us that even there people are not always safe. How long will the public bear this kind of thing ? Surely it is our duty to call upon Government to compel the directors to action."— Western Daily Tress. A GREAT GUN—BUT NOT QUITE A TEN THOU SAND POUNDER !—A ridiculous paragraph has been going the round of the press, stating that Mr Tennyson has pocketed not less than XlO,OOO by the sale of his last volume —" Enoch Arden." We do not pretend to be acquainted with the Laureate's financial affairs, nor to know how much money his publishers have paid him ; bat this we do know—and from the best authority—that up to the present time about 32,000 copies of the work in question have been sold. On no other business matter is there usually dis played so much popular misconception and ignorance as when the profits arising from the publications of eminent authors are concerned. The habits, dress, and incomes of great men will always be matter of lively interest to curious readers end to " worshippers ;" but a little common sense should at least guide those who construct one, and concoct literary statistics. "Enoch Arden" is a six-shilling book ; a part of this amount—say something less than two shillings —will have to be deducted as the trade percentage or book sellers' allowance, the printer will takeanother portion. the binuer anotner, aua We paper -merchant and tv.vertising agent will also expect to be paid. Assuming that two shillings per copy, or even three shillings, may be the author's royalty, it is tokrably clear that the £lO,OOO said to be Mr Tennyson's recent gain is simply one of those pleasant fictions started and circulated for popular amuse ment. So few poetical publications ever pay for paper and print that a great metrical success is not unlikely to mag nify itself—and this, we suppose, must be the excuse for the paragraph in error recently circulated. MANNING THE NAVIN—The continuous-service men who entered the navy in considerable numbers in the rear 1854 aro now rapidly claiming their discharge; and although various ways are attempted by which they may be attracted to remain in the service, yet few, if any, consent to prolong their term. We deeply regret that such is the fact, as we are all interested in maintaining the efficiency of the navy; but it would not only be fruitless, but mischie vous to disguise the truth. We have been informed that oily lately 70 seamen claimed their discharge from the Marlborough at Malta. This, of course, could not bo re fused to them ; but when the question of a passage to Eng land was mooted, no one would come to their assistance and the mea had to find their way home as best they could.' This is not the best method to pursue if we desire to induce sailors " to love their country and honour their Queen."— Army and Navy Gazcite. THE STONE RECORD.—Colonel Greenwood writes as follows to the Athena= —" A creator without a creation is scarcely more contradictory than a creation without creatures. And reason and analogy teach us that before the first strata were formed on this globe, its land, air, and waters must have teemed with life. As strata re sult from slew aqueous erosion and denudation, thousands of years, or thousands of ages must have passed during the formation of the first strata; and it is as contrary to the Mosaic account as it is to all reason and analogy, to suppose that the Almighty Creator should have left his magnificent work, this glorious globe, to swing through space tenantless for ages. What evidence have we that land animals of the highest order did not exist from the first ? Why, that that we do not find fossils of land animals in sea strata. This argument is, as I have said, as childishly absurd as if Columbus had told us that America had no land animals on it, because he had dredged the sea, and had found no re mains of them. Tarde magna proveniunt, but it is satisfac tory, at last, to find Sir Charles Lyell at Bath saying that he agrees with Mr Darwin that the stone record is frag mentary and incomplete. But, on this fact, and on the rea sons of this fact, ie founded a main argument, which runs through the whole of ' Rain and Rivers,' in which a chap ter is headed, ' Man may have existed in the Silurian Period.' This was published in 1857, long before The Origin of Species,' or the French river -terraces, or the Danish shell-mounds, or the Swiss lake villages, or' The Antiquity of Man' were heard of. The two great men, however, have taken one step in the right direction. But they will have to take a great many more. initiatos nos credimus—in vestibulo Itteremus. And, I may add, veniet tempus quo posteri nostri tam aperta nos nescisse mirentur, , and that time is at hand. DEATH BY LIGHTNING.—Dr Chretien, of Mont pellier, hcs sent an account to the French Aca demy of Sciences of a rer?rkablo instance of the terrible tff,cts of lightning. On the 2d inst. ke was sent for to as certain the death of a youth of 16, killed instantaneously by (he electric fluid in his bed, he being ill at the time. His mother and three young men who had come to see him were in the room when the catastrophe occurred. One of the young men was seated at the foot of, the bed, another near the bolster, and the third close to the door of the apartment, which was on the first floor, contiguous to the roof of the house ; the mother was between the second and third visitors. The lightning penetrated into the house through the wall of a large room adjoining the sick room ; it broke all the window panes in the former before reaching the other where the company were. The 37: ung man at the foot of the bed had the legs of his trousers partially burnt oft ; the second received a wound on one of his logs, and the mother had her left leg cruelly bruised, the stocking was partially burnt, and deep burns were perceptible on the ash. 11cr son, as already stated, was killed, and the fluid ultimatey escaped through the windows SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Da' NEWMARKET RACES—THIS DAY. (Br ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) MATCH. Finesse beat Olivia. ALL•AGED STAKES. Lord Burleth Exchequer Argonaut left at the post. £5O PLATE. Troubadour.. Orloff . Six ran. CAMBRIDGESHIRE. - - A.ckworth Tomato 2 Thirty-eight ran. Ran one hour and five minutes behind time. LATEST BETTING. CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 6 to 1 agst Stockinger (taken) 11 to 2 agst Gratitude (taken) 6to 1 agat Brick (taken) 9to 1 agst Columbia (taken) 100 to 8 agst Saccharometer (taken) 20 to 1 agst Prince Plausible (taken) SCRlTCHlNG§..—Blithfield—Historian—Madcap--Bl a f r Athol Caller Ou Johnny Armstrong Stockowner—. Edward the Confessor—Mountain Flower—Adventurer.— Morocco Orphelin—Blackdown—Lawyer—Copenha gen —Queen Crystal Nocturne—Dormouse—Durham—Th e Clown—Soumise—F ilibuster—Carisbrook— "Um pire—Tool Tooi—Comme ga—Melrose—King George—Double X.-- Charlemagne Castle Hill Suspicion— Danaus—Castla Espio Ethelred—Marygold—Merry Hart—Armagnac__ Tommy Jones—Baldwin—Peon—Charming Woman— Crochet horse—Sigualman—Jessie—Raglan—ldler —Erin go Bragh—Peignoir—Physician—Narbonne—Antoinett e —Wandering Minstrel—Hersey filly—brother to hubini— Charmian, Trap, and Giant. HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES OP 10 Sow—Giant paid forfeit HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES OF 15 SOTS—Giant and Cam , ball paid forfeit CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. The following telegram has been received at Mr. Renter's office from the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company : MARSEILLES, OCT. 24. The Baroda, with the above mails, arrived at Marseilles at 6.30 a.m. this day. The mails were to leave for Landon at 11 a.m,. A Family Scene at St, Cloud. A writer in Bailey's Miscellany furnishes the following interesting sketch.—(Charming reading for Mr ICinglake.) The Empress was close before us on the upper terrace, which is connected with her apartments by a light iron bridge. This bridge was entirely concealed by a wild vine, whose splendid dark red leaves were the sole thing which reminded us of autumn. The terrace was still covered with the gayest flowers, and orange and pomegranite flowers stood in the open air. In the centre near a perfect mound of flowers, the Empress was seated in one of those pretty wire-work chairs, which are elegantly made in Paris. In front of her lay, on a similar table, a book and some needle work in a plain basket. The face of the exalted lady was sickly and pale—the noble profile, which appears so classical in marble busts of the Empress, was still the same—and so was the full hair, but in the features there was a sorrow, and the pallor was almost painful to look on. A cheerful contrast was afforded by the youthful Prince; he was play ing with a snow white dog, which impudently leaped on the lap of the Empress. What does a dog know of the etiquette of court? The Prince is a remarkably handsome boy, tall and well grown for his age, with curly hair, and round fresh face, with clever eyes, and very like one of Raphael's angels ; at the same time his manner is admir able, and there is grace in all his movements. He wore the trousers of the corporal's uniform, and over them a blouse pale yellow with blue embroidery, which became him well; In the background sat two ladies, in one of whom I recog nised Madame Bruat. " Gouvernante des Enfants de France." At this moment the Emperor slowly crossed the iron bridge ; an old white haired gentleman accompanied him, Mocquard, the chief of his cabinet. The Emperor said a couple of words to him, and then dismissed him with a kindly wave of the hand. Mocquard, after making a deep bow, disappeared. The little Prince ran to meet his father and the dog barked at the Emperor most improperly. The latter raised his son from the ground, kissed him on the forehead, then took his hand, and walked with him up to hie mother, the Empress rose and the couple walked along the flower beds in conversation, with the Prince behind them. The Emperor was in civilian dress, with hat and gloves and the traditional lilac paletot—a fashion which the King of Holland left him on his visit. The Emperor looked remarkably stout; his face was as usual dark and stern, and the heavy moustache rendered it still sterner. Still he seemed to be in good spirits; he often laid hie hand on the Prince's curly head, and pointed to several of the flower-pots, as if telling him the names of the plants. The Empress soon seated herself again at her former seat, the Emperor took a chair by her side, and took a portfo!io, in which he wrote, though without inter rupting his conversation with the Empress. The Prince was very busy with his mother's work-basket, and listened the while to his parents' conversation. The little Prince suddenly addresses a question to his father, who shakes his head in refusal ; but the boy leaps on his knee, and begs and coaxes, and at last draws his mother into the embrace. At length the Emperor appears to give way, and consent, the Prince at last leaps about merrily, the lapdog comes to life again, too, and the old gentleman with the white hair appears again in the allee and begins bowing long before their Majesties notice him. M. Mocquard an nounces that the Ministers are assembled, and awaiting the Emperor. His Majesty rises, kiaaea his a.u, awl ...Lis to repeat his promise; then he effirs the Empress his arm, and escorts her over the bridge to her apartments. The Prince remains on the terrace with the two other ladies and the lapdog, when M. Mocquard disappears again on the side allee. On the same day I read the following notice in an evening paper:—" The Emperor came this afternoon from St. Cloud to Paris, in order to inspect the now Boulevard du Prince Eugene; he was in a light open phaeton, and drove himself. The Prince Imperial was seated by his side —the first time he has accompanied his Mbjesty on such a drive. The carriage was without escort—there was only two footmen behind. His Majesty was received with loud shouts on all the Boulevards, and the public were delighted at the pleasant salutes which tho little Prince offered on all sides." It was this, then, the little Prince had asked and coaxed from his father—a trip with papa, and not, as usual, in the large stupid four-horse state coach, surrounded by chattering dragoons and aides-de-camp. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. lustralla and Mauritius, via Southampton. Nov 18. via Marseilles Nov. 12. Brazil and Cape Verde, by British packet. Nov. 4. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Oct. 29. (Tuna, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton. Nov. 2 via Marseilles ...Oct, 27. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton.. Nov. 2. - . via Marseilles.... Oct, 27. India (Bombay), via Southampton via Maracilloa Oct. 21. Portugal.... Nov. 4. Malta, Egypt, and Adon, via Southampton Oct. 21. via Marseilles Oct, 21. Newfoundland ..0ct.1.G. Oporto and Vigo U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... Oct. 26. by 'U.S. packet.... .... ... by Cs.nadlan packet.o et. 28. All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, J Oct. 29. California. and British Columbia.. ALTONA, Oct. 22.—The Schleswig-Holstein Ga• zet:e announces that the Germanic Diet has come to a decision to make Holstein pay a considerable part of the expenses cuused by the Federal execution and the civil Administration in that Duchy. HORSE AND RIDER BOTH KILLED.—A few nights ago Mr HoiaLy, veterinary surgeon, of Kirby-Moorside, North Riding, when rid'qg home in the dark was thrown from his horse on the road between Newton and Kirby, the a nimal having fallen over something in the road. It is be. lieved that the horse rolled over Mr Homby, but this is not certain. The animal itself was so injured that it shortly died, and Mr Hornby also received injuries which caused his death on Saturday. There is a rumour that another horseman rode over both on the road, but whether this is true or not cannot be stated. The circumstances wal be for a coroner's jury to investigate. EXTRAORDINARY PRODUCE OF THREE POTATOES. —Three large-sized potatoes, planted in Mr. ItAn. sow's garden, at Hawthorne Cottage, on Southampton Common, were this week dug up, and found to have pro duced 362, weighing in the aggregate 711bs. A dozen, weighed 16 lbs., and four selected from the dozen w e i g h e d GI lbs. The largest single potato weighed 2 lbs. 7 ez . Th ese potatoes were planted about three fact apart, and kept well earthed up as they grew, each forming a 5111511 moand about 18 inches high.—llants Advertiser. PUNISHMENT FUR 6TEALING SIX WALNUTS. — A country magistrate lately inflicted a punishment of six months' imprisonment with bard labour on a youth named William Webb, fur stealing six wAnuts from a tree, or one month's imprisonment per nut I Mr Not tage, of Tuhte hill, brought the fa c t b e f ore the Home S c crotary, and has just received th e following reply:—" Wh itehall, having c ons id ere d Oct, 20, 1. 61."—Sir,—Tly,-; S.-,cretaryol State for the H ome Depart mentyour application in behalf o f Wm. Webb, I h ave th e sat i s f act i o n to acquaint you that he has felt wa rran t e d , un d er a ll the circumstances, in advising her Majesty to reduco the pr isoner's sentence to imprisonment S. Nottage, EN. , Sidrcou t h Lod g e, Tulse-hlll.l for one month,l am, sir, &c., T. G. BARING.—Georga